The nature of this course deals with something along the lines of the effects that different people can have on one's work. When I saw that Frankenstein was on the reading list, I immediately thought of that chance gathering of several authors that resulted in the genesis of many great pieces of literature. The meeting in which the authors decided that they would all write pieces of work and then reconvene and show each other their creations. It had me thinking that in terms of things impacting us in our generation, the media really is the greatest thing: it has pretty much replaced all forms of news gathering by taking out the need to go out and search and instead has put it right before one's eyes.
Before the internet, and electricity, people had to convene with each other in order to figure out what was happening, in a sort of game of telephone, in which certain things were blown out of proportion and others were simply misconstrued. The same thing happens today with biases of news sources.
I decided that media simply changes over time and over technological advancement and as such, early exercises were when people got together and figured things out. Well those were the early exercises on which some of this class is based. So I thought that I would name my blog "Early Exercises in English Media."
